Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:21:17 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: sata_mv and Highpoint RocketRAID 230x, corruption? |
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On 10-10-22 10:21 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote: >Mark Lord wrote: >> >> The RocketRaid BIOS that I examined here a couple of years ago, >> liked to write "metadata" over top of whatever was in certain sectors >> near the end of the drive. EVEN FOR NON-RAID DRIVES. >> >> I think it was the last even (power-of-two) multiple of 1GB >> or something, >> so if you leave the final 2GB untouched, you're guaranteed to >> avoid it. >> >> Thus the recommendation. > > What happens to the backup GPT at the end of the disk?
Dunno.
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